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The results of our Thirty Years Experience 
I-all Strawberries, Sweet Corn, Cucumbers, Cabbage, Pumpkin, Melons, Pears, 
Apples and Peaches, photographed Sept. 15th, 1914. 
Fall Bearing Varieties 
Amerieus (Per.)—A seedling of Pan Ameri¬ 
can crossed with Louis Gauthier, originated 
by Harlow Rockhill of Iowa. The plants 
are good growers when given good care and 
plenty of fertilizer. They are just about 
such plant producers as the old Bubach 
strawberry. The foliage is a light glossy 
green and very healthy. It bears a fine crop 
of fruit the year the plants are set out (in 
Aug., Sept., and October) and also a nice 
crop the next spring and the following fall. 
The crop in the fall of the first year does 
not discolor the roots or impair the plants 
for fruiting the next spring. The berries 
are medium to large in size, regular shaped, 
light glossy red and very beautiful. It is 
of the very finest flavor. A shortcake made 
from Amerieus in August or September is a 
dish fit for a king. The crop in June is even 
finer than the fall crop. This variety re¬ 
minds me when in fruit of the Ridgway 
strawberry. It will bear good crops on any 
soil but does best on rich heavy soils with 
clay in their make up. Selected young 
plants 12 for 75c; 25 for $1.00; 100, $3.50; 
1.000, $25.00. Heeled in: 1 yr. plants 25 for 
50c; 100, $1.50; 1,000, $10.00. 
Francis (Per.)—Raised In the same batch 
of seedlings with Amerieus. The individual 
plants are very similar in appearance, but 
are not so vigorous. The young plants are 
often very small but the old plants a year 
or more from setting, get very large and 
spread over quite a surface. Even more so 
than the Amerieus. the Francis often pro¬ 
duces ripe berries on a runner before the 
young plant strikes root. The Francis is 
not often quite as good a runner as the 
Amerieus but will sometimes surpass that 
variety in producing young plants. The 
Francis requires very special care to make 
it do its best and when it does do its best, 
there is nothing in the fall bearing straw¬ 
berry line that will equal it. I get more 
fruit from them than from any other variety, 
and visitors who come to see me will always 
select the Francis as their preference. The 
fact that others want the plants as fast as 
I can produce them and that I just as soon 
set them as to sell them at reduced prices, 
is what makes the price of Francis keep up 
from year to year. I would like to set several 
acres of this variety, but every year I find 
myself sold short of plants, not enough left 
to near set what acreage I would like. Last 
spring I managed to set an acre, by dividing 
up old plants, and the past fall our yield 
was simply marvellous and every one who 
came to see them in fruiting wanted plants. 
I seem to be about the only nurseryman who 
will bother with them, they don’t produce 
enough plants for the other fellows. The 
berries of Francis are irregular in shape but 
very glossy and attractive. When we ex¬ 
hibit them, people often ask if they are 
varnished. It is so productive that I believe 
I can grow them at the rate of ten thousand 
quarts to the acre. It is the largest of all 
the fall bearing strawberries. The flavor is 
second only to Amerieus. Dozen, $1.50; 
25 for $2.50; 100, $8.00; 1,000, $75.00. 
Progressive (Per.) — The most vigorous 
growing plant of all the fall bearing straw¬ 
berries. It is a seedling of Pan American 
crossed with Senator Dunlap, produced by 
Mr. Rockhill. The plants and fruit both 
closely resemble Dunlap in most respects. 
The berries are produced in great abundance 
and are of fair flavor when the weather is 
warm and sunshiny, but the flavor deterior¬ 
ates much more than Francis or Amerieus 
when we have rainy or cold nasty weather. 
I have finally come to the conclusion that it 
is the most desirable variety for the common 
strawberry grower to tackle, of all the fall 
bearing varieties. It will grow better than 
the other varieties and produce fair returns 
of fruit when the others will fall. It is an 
immense yielder and you get a good many 
fine looking berries but there are a great 
quantity that never fully mature. We have 
an immense stock of plants and offer them 
at a reduced price. Dozen, 50o; 25 for 75c; 
100, $2.50; 1,000, $20.00. 
